sulked
/sʌlkt/
"sulked" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“sulked” is uncommon English (frequency #97,597 among 6,566 “S” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,597
- frequency rank, English
- 6,566
- “S” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - simple past and past participle of sulk
Corpus desk
Index EN-sulked · sulked · English
sulked · rank #97,597 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,597
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,566
- PHOTO-FINISH Sukkot
Nearest frequency peer: Sukkot (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Long-tail ranks near “sulked”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- subframe
subframe
2,410 corpus weight
- subspecialty
subspecialty
2,409 corpus weight
- Sukkot
Sukkot
2,405 corpus weight
- sulked
sulked
2,404 corpus weight
- sunn
sunn
2,400 corpus weight
- sunshade
sunshade
2,399 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “sulked” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | sulked |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /sʌlkt/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #97,597 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “sulked” in English
Rare enough to double-check
sulked is uncommon English at frequency #97,597 among 6,566 “S” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /sʌlkt/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "simple past and past participle of sulk".
No misspelling variants are generated for sulked in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct English form is sulked, spelled S-U-L-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1simple past and past participle of sulk
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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